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Show Defended by Human Wall. According to legend, the ancient castle of Hapsburg, overlooking the Rhine, was founded in 1020, and was without surrounding walls for defensive defen-sive purposes a strange omission in those warlike days. A friend, coming com-ing to stay at the castle, bo greatly deplored the absence of the usual defenses de-fenses that its lord declared that, before be-fore sunrise on the following morning, morn-ing, his stronghold would be surrounded surround-ed by impregnable walls. Naturally the visitor smiled and did not believe that this thing could come to pass, but, in the early morning, he was awakened by the lord of the castle, who bade him look out upon the walls. He had kept his promise, but in an unexpected way. Instead of seeing a surrounding wall made of stone, the visitor saw an unbroken circle of the lord's followers, all in their armor and bearing weapons. And it has since been the boast of the Hapsburgs that the family's devoted subjects were o'ifflcient defense in no matter what emergen., . |